Neckscarf



(NoModeL) A. E. OONVERS.

Neck Scarf.

No. 234,174. Patented Nov. 9,1880.

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siren STATES ALBERT E. OONVERS, ()F TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

NECKSCARF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,174, dated November 9, 1880.

Application filed June 16, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. UoNvERs,

of Taunton, of the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bosom-Scarfs; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front view, Fig. 2 a back view, and Fig. 3 a vertical and transverse section, of a scarf containing my said invention. Fig. 4is a side view of thebutton-catch. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of such catch and the strap and elastic connection for securing the catch to the strap.

The scarf has a strap to go around the neckband of the collar of the wearer, and it is specially adapted for use with aturndown collar separate from the shirt neck -band. and may be used or held in place either with or without the strap going around the collar. This bosom-scarf is intended to combine the advantages appertaining to the scarf having a strap to go around the neck with those incident to the bosom-scarf for which I have recently applied for a patent, the latter scarf having a strap of insufficient length to go around the neck, such strap being fastened at one end to the upper part of the scarf-body, at the middle thereof, and being provided at its other end with a button-catch, or such and an elastic connection. Besides the strap and its button-catch the scarf had applied to its back a notched flexile plate provided with a spur or metallic point, such spur or point being to pass into the strap after its button-catch may have been applied to the collar-sustaining stud.

In carrying out my present invention I take a fiat-bosom-scarf, A, of the ordinary kind, as

shown in the drawings-that is, one having to its body a a neck-strap, b, and a back plate, 0, the latter being shaped as represented, and attached at its upper edge and at the corners of its lower part to the body, and provided with a hitching-spur, d, extending down from it at its lower edgeand I affix to the strap b, at its free end, a button-catch, G, and an elastic connection, D, and 1 usually furnish the back plate, a, with an auxiliary point or spur, 0, arranged to extend down from it at its middle, as shown.

Should it be required to wear the scarf with- (No model.)

out carrying the strap around the neck of the wearer and hitching such strap on the spur d, the strap may be passed down through the 5 5 body-loop f, and after having folded it back from or near its middle the part so turned up is to be passed up between the plate a and the body at until the catch 0 may project a short distance above the plate 0, and after having hitched the said catch (3 upon the collar-sustainin g stud the body of the scarf may he slid upward 011 the strap to the proper height to cover the collar stud or button. This having been accomplished, the scarf may be retained 6 in position by hitching the strap on the auxiliary spur, or on both spurs. Instead of having two spurs, I sometimes use a single one arranged at a suitable inclination to enable it to hold the strap in either of the modes of using it.

The button-catch (1, made of metal in the form as shown in Fig. 4, is inserted in a pocket,

It, made lengthwise in the strap and to open at its free end, the elastic connection or,webbing D being looped around the cross-bar i of the catch and extended to and fastened to the strap at its end. The elastic connection operates to retract the catch in the pockets until the innerend of the catch may bring up against the bottom of the pocket.

The catch is made in the manner described in order to facilitate the introduction of the strap into and through the space between the body and plate of the scarf, the catch being of a length greater than the width or depth of the said plate.

It will be seen that were the button-catch of a length less than the width or depth of the plate it would be often a difficult matter to push such catch down in the said space to and beyond the lower edge of the plate for the catch to be there secured by the hand for the purpose of pulling it farther down, in order to set the scarf properly up to the neck. 5

I claim as my invention as follows:

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a flat bosom-scarf having its strap projected from the upper part of the body or back plate, 0, and long enough to go around the neck of a :00 person and hitch upon the holding-spur, and provided at its free end with a button-catch, for use as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a

flat bosom -scarf having its strap projected from the upper part of the body or back plate, 0, and long enough to go around the neck of a person and hitch upon the holding-spur, and provided at or near its free end with a buttoneatch and elastic connection of such with the strap, such being for use as explained.

3. As an improved article of nmnnt'aeture, a flat bosom-scarf having an auxiliary spur, as described, and a strap projected from the upper part of the body or back plate, 0, and long enough to go around the neck of a, person and bitch on the main spur, and provided at its connection, all being substantially as shown 20 and described.

ALBERT E. (JONVERS.

Witnesses:

1:. H. EDDY, WM. W. LUNT. 

